Friday, February 02, 2007

In British Columbia, a Jehovah's Witness family is suing the province over its seizure of three of their four surviving sextuplets to give them a life-saving blood transfusion. The parents believe that blood transfusions interfere with the will of God and even though their babies were returned to them following the transfusions, they are trying to get money from the province. The Pendragon is sympathetic to parents' wishes being followed as regards their own offspring, but give me a break? First of all, you don't get sextuplets naturally so I think some interference with the will of God has already taken place. Secondly, isn't it refreshing to see a government interfering to save life, instead of to take it? British Columbia is to be commended and I only hope to see these religious nutjobs slapped down. As a parent-to-be myself, I cannot fathom what would possess a parent to basically say they would rather have their children die than "interfere" with God's will and save them. Since God is at bottom the creator and protector of life, and any true religion would celebrate that, it would seem that any action to save human life could not be taken in violation of his will. But that's just me--mainstream, not extreme Christianity.

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